Dwelling(s) in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

Heather Laird is a lecturer in English at University College Cork. She is a committee member of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland and an editor of the Cork University Press book series Síreacht: Longings for Another Ireland. Jay Roszman is a lecturer in nineteenth-century Irish and British history at University College Cork. He is the Treasurer of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland and the Irish Editor of the Irish Literary Supplement.

• Introduction: Dwelling(s) in Nineteenth-Century IrelandHeather Laird and Jay R. RoszmanI. Modernity and the Irish CabinThe Nonhuman and the Irish Peasant Cabin in Nineteenth-Century CultureMaureen O’Connor‘Hold manfully onto your farms’: Gender and Resistance During the Irish Land WarPatrick Bethel‘Back into the old homestead’: The Irish Cottage in Irish-American Fiction, 1861−1910Christopher CusackII. Class Mobility and Home‘A partition . . . making of it a kitchen and a bedroom’: Working-Class Housing in Irish Provincial Towns in the Late Nineteenth CenturyPeter ConnellSpreading Out: Suburbanization and Dwelling-Places in Middle-Class BelfastAlice JohnsonHealth from Home?: Home Gymnasiums in Nineteenth-Century IrelandConor HeffernanAfter Castle Rackrent: The Wardlaws (1896) and Literary Responses to Edgeworth’s Castle RackrentPatrick MaumeIII. Families and Intimate Spaces in Institutional DwellingsThe Policeman’s Home: The Constabulary Barracks in Victorian and Edwardian IrelandBrian Griffin‘No relatives or anyone … to take the slightest interest in her’: Insanity, Patients, and their Families in the Nineteenth-Century Irish AsylumTríona WatersPicturing Patients: Cork Street Fever Hospital, Photography and Childhood in Late Nineteenth-Century DublinOrla FitzpatrickIV. The Material Culture of HomeBurying Bad Luck: Material Cultures of Magic in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Irish Houses and FarmyardsClodagh Tait‘The tailors generally went from house to house in those days’: Travelling Tailors and the Making of Apparel in the Rural Irish Dwelling, 1850−1900Eliza McKeeWalter Osborne and the Domestic Scene: Family and Professional Life in a Dublin SuburbKathryn Milligan

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